David was in the bridge, watching a large body of water appear on window.

"Steady...Steady..." I said.

I was guiding the city sized ship, the Vengeance, into the ocean in order to hide.

"goddammit!" I exclaimed, as the ship appeared to have hit something.

"Pull us out! Pull us out!" I ordered.

When we pulled the ship out, we saw that the front end was dented. We tried a few more times, but that's when I realized the ship can just go down vertically. I cursed in anger, and sent the ship down vertically. We had landed on planet Nibiru (which is a pretty big damn coincidence) and hid the Vengeance under water. I left the ship on a runabout with barrels of StructSand and two centurions as my guard.

When I reached the surface, I did a scan. The Nibirans were focused closer to the mountain, which was still covered in cooled stone structures from when Spock detonated that thing that cooled the lava.

I hovered over the cooled volcano.

Holy shit, this place is perfect.

In the volcano, there was a big crater surrounded by large pillars of rock that was splashing when it used to be lava. There was enough room to build a facility, and it was a perfect place to hide it. That, and it was freaking awesome.

I dumped the barrels of StructSand out of the runabout and in the crater. I opened a tablet that controlled the StructSand and started designing a facility.

When the facility was finished, I looked at it.

There were five buildings, each were domes. There was one dome in the middle, and around it were four other dome buildings.

The middle dome will construct the machine I've been planning to make, where as the four other domes would be designing the technology that will be included in the machine. Each dome focuses on one specific technology:

Nanotech: designing technology that allow the machine to utilize programmable matter, allowing it to grow and reproduce.

WeaponsTech: designing weapons and defenses for the machine to protect itself, and attack others.

Biotech: to give the machine the ability to make artificial organisms.

Computer tech: to give the machine a brain.

The middle will be where the construction of the machine will take place.

(skip to bottom if you don't like a lot of explaining)

I've always loved fantasy and sci-fi, I've always loved it when the mundane was broken.

Surprisingly, I never really liked the star trek universe. Sure, there were thousands of fantastical species and cultures in star trek, but there were so many species and cultures, that it made them a mundane thing. When you see a market where every vendor, buyer, and security guard are thousands of different species, many would think "holy shit, this is amazing" but I would pay attention to how mundane all the species are treating this, like its a status quo.

I've always hated status quos, despite being OCD. The one thing I loved about star trek were the Borg. They lived to change the status quo, to make things different. The reapers from Mass Effect, the Flood from Halo, the vong from Star Wars, and the martians from War of the Worlds all lived to make once-fantastical-now-boring into something with passion and change it into something more.

Then there's the creativity of every star trek species, every name is weirdly designed, every culture with a single theme, sometimes there is only one nation and if there are more they are usually at war. Everything seems so...idealistic. All the bad things are how an idealist perceives them to be.

This universe, despite painting itself with many different colors, seems hollow. Passionless. Everything exists for the sake of being random. The story behind each culture seems...cobbled together, like it just pretends to be fantastical.

That's what I want to change. The machines I'm designing are inspired by the Reapers of Mass Effect. They find a planet and eradicate it of anything inhabiting it, then they remake it. They fill it with new plant and animal life using the biotech I equipped them with, and use the nanotech such as StructSand to create buildings and other artificial structures for a civilization.

They will create a civilization in a virtual world, and every artificial being in that world will be sentient. The buildings and technology the civilization has will be replicated in the real world. The people will also be made real using the biotech to create real organic bodies and transplanting their minds into the bodies. This will make it appear as though the civilization was there for longer than it actually was.

I'm not going to do the same mistake as star trek and make cobbled up civilizations. I'm going to pull the civilizations from other fictions; anime, live action, video games, and movies. The worlds of star trek barely have any effort put to them, its what happens when you have make all the fictional worlds part of one fictional world. When world building an entire universe, ones creativity is spread too thin, getting rid of the uniqueness found in every world. But when designing one world, like when one is working in separate, smaller universe, you get a world with a clear and unique picture. Star trek is one picture with thousands of colors, and every other fiction is a picture with only a few colors.

To sum it all up, I'm making civilizations from many works of fiction real.

I was looking at a squirrel.

This wasn't a regular squirrel, it was one of the cybernetic animals I designed on the Enterprise. The squirrel smelled funny, which is because it is rotting inside.

I activated a hologram, showing a spherical structure. All around it, arms were sticking out, and it was hollow in the middle. This was a close up of StructSand. You remember that pacing I did, right? well, I already figured out how to fix the rotting problem.

The StructSand would create an organism. The organism would first look like a soft, black statue. Then, I would spray the organism with the nutrients and chemicals a regular organism would need. The StructSand would collect the substances, and use it to create synthetic cells inside itself. After the cells are created, the StructSand would dissolve, giving the organism its natural look and making it fully organic.

In other words, sponge bots.

I changed the hologram to the design for the machine.

It looks like a skull with four, narrow eye sockets. On the back of its head, a large fin like structure stood with the flat part facing forward. It had tentacles, designed to release swarms of nanites and chemicals for the sponge bots. Its color is black.

It is to be equipped with a warp core, the powerful phaser cannon design from the Vengeance, a replicator that creates StructSand, Sponge bots, and other important materials.

Instead of normally building it, I will make a small scale version. The StructSand will allow it to grow and even replicate more copies of itself. It will enter a planet's atmosphere and start spraying Smart Dust, a new form of nanites that consumes everything. It will use SpongeGel (the sponge bot making stuff) to create new ecosystems, then it will release a concoction which the Sponge bots will absorb and become fully organic.

I call it...a Remaker.

It will be glorious.

"Dammit man!" McCoy said over the communicator.

"You say that all the time." Kirk said. He was wearing a space suit, investigating the comet which Lord (what everyone is officially calling David by) used to ambush the T'pol.

"yeah, well you keep doing things that will get you damned to hell." McCoy said.

"Like what?" Kirk said, as he fired his phaser.

"Try personally investigating a toxic comet. Then, getting in a firefight on said toxic comet." McCoy said, rather frustrated. Kirk was ducking behind cover of a large vertical icicle pillar. In front of the icicle, droids were firing at Kirk.

"How the hell was I suppose to know the son of a bitch left his stupid droids behind?" Kirk said, firing a couple of shots.

"That's not the point, Jim." McCoy said.

"Then what is?" Kirk asked, hitting a droid as another one shot at him, which he narrowly dodged.

"The point is that you keep putting yourself in situations where there is clearly danger." McCoy said.

"I told you, I didn't know about the droids." Kirk shouted as he switched cover. Spock was with him, and for some reason Captain Nadi as well.

"Dammit Jim! I'm not talking about the damn droids, I'm talking about the toxic comet you decided to step foot on." McCoy shouted.

Kirk and Spock shot at a few droids, leaving only three left.

"Then why the hell didn't you say so?" Kirk said.

"I shouldn't have-"

"Captain Kirk," Nadi interrupted "is now a good time to be arguing with your Chief Medical Officer?" She said as she shot a droid in the head.

"When is there a good time?" Kirk asked.

"Perhaps when we are not being fired at." Nadi said.

"But we're not." Kirk said. Nadi furrowed her brows in confusion, then realizes that the firing has stopped.

The droids have all been destroyed.

"Captain," Kirk hears Spock over his helmet coms "I suggest that we take one of the droids with us. Perhaps we will find something."

"Go ahead Spock. Be careful, you see so much as a leg twitch, you unload into the bastard." Kirk said.

"Thank you Captain." Spock walked to one of the downed droids.

"Captain Kirk," Kirk turns to Nadi "I wish to speak with you."

"What is it?"

"You said you encountered Lord during your travels. How did you?"

Kirk hesitated "Transporter accident."

"How so?"

"We were in warp. Warp interfered with the transporter, beamed him from all the way to Earth." Kirk said.

Nadi lifted an eyebrow "I don't see how that's possibl-"

"Why are you helping us, Captain Nadi?" Kirk tried to change the subject.

Nadi's hidden hand clenched into a fist "What do you mean?"

"Don't bullshit me." Kirk moved closer to Nadi "There's another reason your doing this. A personal reason."

"Vulcans do not get-"

"Captain!" Spock poked out from behind a row of ice "I believe that I have found something."

Kirk looked back at Nadi "We'll talk later."

Kirk and Nadi walked over to Spock and a golden droid with something ripped out of its head. "What have you found?"

Spock held up a device in his hand "These droids appear to have some form of communication devices, unlike the ones on New Vulcan. Perhaps due to the interference the comet makes."

"And...how is this important?" Kirk asked.

"The signal of these devices are much stronger. We could broadcast it, and if there are any droids with a one light year radius, they would most likely respond to it, allowing us-"

"allowing us to pinpoint there location." Kirk finished "You pointy-eared bastard! You're a genius!" Kirk complimented.

"Pointy-eared bastard?" Nadi repeated. Kirk stared awkwardly at Nadi.

"uh-i-its this- this thing we do, its-its not meant to be racist or offensive or-" Kirk stuttered.

"Captain Kirk," She interrupted "Can we please get out of here."

"uh-sure. sure."

It was freaking awesome.

The first Remaker was finished, and it was completely bad ass.

I was in the construction dome. In front of me was a pointy headed black four eyed skull with tentacles springing out from its bottom. It was about the size of a runabout, but given time, the replicator and StructSand will make it grow.

Not only did I equip it with the blueprints the weapons and a warp core, but I also gave it a certain weapon. You see, if there is one thing the Reapers of Mass Effect, Flood of Halo, and the Borg of Star Trek taught me, was that an army of zombies is not only extremely powerful, but also extremely terrifying. How could you fight against an enemy with no home and uses your own dead as soldiers?

So, I included it with the ability to release a small, invisible amount of nanites that can both brainwash someone, and turn them into a cyborg. And if you're thinking about the Borg, don't, because this will create something as terrifying as the husks from mass effect.

And if you're thinking 'David, why are packing so much firepower into something that could rebel against you?' yeah well guess what. I didn't program these with a logical learning ability, I programmed it with an emotional learning ability. It feels pain, it remembers what caused that pain to avoid it. Feels anger, remembers the cause of anger to hate it. I programmed it to associate me with love and safety, making it protective and dependent of me. I also gave it a probability calculation program, but kept separate from the main program, making it seem like a tool it depends on.

In short it has the intelligence of a naive, obedient child with the ability to predict the future.

"My lord." I heard over my communicator.

"Yes. What is it?" I responded.

"We have received a broadcast from one of our droid frequencies." It said.

I furrowed my brows "where is it broadcasting from?"

"In the system sir-"

"My lord!" Another pilot interrupted the transmission "We have picked up two ships on our long range radar!"

"What!? Where!?" I shouted.

"They just entered the Atmosphere." It said.

"Maintain radio silence." I said.

I turned off my communicator and walked to runabout. However, I stopped when I realized that the Remaker could fly, and had enough room to hold me. I walked to the Remaker "Can you make a cockpit for me?"

A cockpit formed where its mouth would be. I got in and a glass windshield...grew in front of me. A steering wheel and pedals appeared in the cockpit.

I took the Remaker and flew it out of the volcano.

"oh shit." I exclaimed.

I saw the T'pol and the Enterprise hovering in the sky.

"Don't they know the Nibirans see them? What happened to the Prime Directive?" I said.

I noticed two runabouts float down from the ships.

Down the hill, I see a small village of Nibirans.

I remember that I am in the Remaker.

I smirk.

A/N: Okay. here we go, this is where the real adventure begins.

Disclaimer: I don't own Mass Effect, nor do I own the reapers. The Remakers are inspired by the reapers.